en passant

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He mentioned en passant that he was going away.
他順便提到他要離開的事。
You beat the declarer's coup en passant by means of an 'uppercut', a device belonging to the same family of card plays.
你用將牌上擊法擊敗了莊家的“將牌巧吃妙招”，同樣是橋牌著數(shù)的精妙之道。
There is a unique chess rule which involves a special move in chess that many casual players are not aware of, the rule is called "en passant".
順便有一個(gè)獨(dú)特的國(guó)際象棋的規(guī)則，涉及一個(gè)特別行動(dòng)在國(guó)際象棋，許多休閑玩家不知道，規(guī)則是所謂的“順便”。

What made Tom Wolfe's work special, however, was the care the author took never to let the personal get buried under the en passant.
ECONOMIST: New American fiction 1: Noisy words The
She is a nobody, a casual extra, except that, when they grasp each other en passant, and as take follows take, she becomes, imperceptibly, a somebody.
NEWYORKER: Better Times

French for 'in passing': if you say something en passant, you mention it quickly while talking about something else.

in passing: in chess, said of capturing a pawn that has made an initial move of two squares to its fourth rank, bypassing the square where an enemy pawn on its own fifth rank could capture it. The capture is made as if the captured pawn had moved one square instead of two